Speaking after the inquest, her mother Sylvia Britton-Prior, 48, told how Amber liked to ride her mountain bike singing to music by Britney Spears, Kylie Minogue and Michael Jackson.

She said: “I was always shouting at Amber to take her headphones off when she was cycling but she never listened to me. I told her: ‘I can see you getting killed’ and removed the headphones from her head.

“But she was ignorant to the dangers of the road and thought she was invincible. Nothing could separate her from her music. It was the love of her life. She even complained to me that the police had stopped her a couple of times and told her to remove her headphones. Amber thought she knew better.”

Amber, from Southampton, was cycling to her cleaning job at a fire station on the morning of March 23 when she died. The inquest heard that she had been pedalling along a cycle lane but failed to stop at a junction and slammed into the rear of a Volvo truck trailer that was turning into a side road.

Amber died at the scene from chest injuries and investigators said they could not rule out the possibility that she had been listening to music at the time.

Harry Dickinson, a self- employed lorry driver from Carlisle, Cumbria, was not aware of the collision until a car driver flagged him down and told him. Mr Dickinson, 60, has an unblemished driving record and was left traumatised by the accident.

Amber’s sister Alice Britton- Prior, 16, said: “Amber loved cycling and she loved music. She never left home without her personal stereo and headphones.

“People would see her singing along to her favourite tunes by Kylie and Britney on the way to work. It would put her in a good mood for the day ahead. Mum used to have a go at her for wearing large headphones when cycling and not hearing the traffic but Amber ignored her. I wish she’d listened.”

Her mother added: “I hope some good can come from her death and that others will learn from our heartbreak. Please, do not listen to music while cycling on the road.”

Southampton coroner Keith Wiseman recorded a verdict of accidental death.